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With Valley Stream residents continuing their months-long fight to get relief from high flood insurance premiums, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has proposed a bill that could be the solution.
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By Andrew Hackmack
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12/8/10
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After meetings with the Federal Emergency Management Agency on several occasions, I am totally disgusted as you may be. We have received nothing but idle campaign promises instead of meaningful legislation from our Senate and Congress. Our lawmakers have done nothing to help us.
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10/29/10
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A small group of Valley Stream residents met with Nassau County Legislator Fran Becker last weekend, seeking his help for relief from high flood insurance premiums.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/27/10
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All 811 homes in the Mill Brook community are in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s new high-risk flood zone, and civic leaders are fighting to reduce that number to zero.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/20/10
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Given another chance to express their outrage over the new federal flood maps, Valley Stream residents came out in full force to do just that last week at Central High School. Nearly 300 people attended an Oct. 7 meeting organized by Hempstead Town Councilman Jim Darcy.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/8/10
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Representatives from the Federal Emergency Managment Agency will return to Valley Stream for a second time to answer questions about the new flood maps, which went into effect about a year ago.
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Andrew Hackmack
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10/2/10
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An Aug. 31 meeting at Village Hall finally gave Valley Stream residents their chance to meet face to face with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which changed the flood plain maps and put thousands of local residents into high-risk flood zones.
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9/15/10
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Sen. Chuck Schumer says it is time for Federal Emergency Management Agency officials to go back to the drawing board. The senator blasted the agency on Monday at Valley Stream Village Hall, saying that its new flood maps are littered with inaccuracies
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/13/10
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At the urging of hundreds of Valley Stream residents, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will do a ground study of the community to determine whether its new flood maps are accurate.
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Andrew Hackmack
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9/8/10
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At a recent town hall meeting at the Valley Stream Village Hall, present were many residents of Valley Stream and adjacent communities affected by the changed flood maps instituted by FEMA. As is fairly well known at this point, these maps took areas of Long Island’s South Shore with no prior history of floods and categorized them as high risk areas.
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9/8/10
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